Explanation Quote by Greg Koukl Download Open image “An alternate explanation is not a refutation.” — Greg Koukl ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Explanation Refutation
There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“[F]or all refutation must begin with some piece of knowledge which the disputants share; from blank doubt, no argument can begin.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I believe that the time given to refutation in philosophy is usually time lost. Of the many attacks directed by many thinkers against each… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the writers; for… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“It is useless to explain to a person who is already holding a conclusion.” — Nitin Namdeo Copy Share Image
Our reasons for believing Jesus existed and also that He was who He claimed to be - the God who came down - are… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
A worldview is simply someone's relatively organized understanding of what the world is actually like. — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
If the unborn is a human person, no justification for abortion is adequate. — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
You may be a fantastic person, and you may have some wonderful religious views that might even turn out to be true, but the… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
Trouble, hardship, difficulty, pain, suffering, conflict, tragedy, evil - they're all part of the [Christian] Story. Indeed, the problem of evil is the reason… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
God created man to share friendship with Him and share in His happiness. — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
Sometimes (at least in principle) God might allow some evil because doing so will prevent a greater evil, and sometimes He might allow evil… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
God is the very first piece of the Christian Story because the Story is all about Him. He is the central character, not us.… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
Our innate, built-in human value is the reason we have binding duties or obligations towards each other that we don't have towards any other… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
When we encounter new details of our world we fill in more of the spaces. When we discover details that don't seem to fit… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
Whenever someone tries to deny the truth, ultimately, reality betrays him. — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
In the Story of Reality man does not rescue himself for his own glory. Instead, God rescues man for His glory. Every other story… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation. — Brad Blanton Copy Share Image
Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators. — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not. — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
In his anti-Darwinian book... (and eponymously named The Neck of the Giraffe ), Francis Hitching tells the story... "The need to survive by reaching… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] will spend long periods of time explaining to people why he won't use it. At the end of the explanation, nobody knows… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation; the idea… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Take the story of Cain and Abel. Why were we given that story? Scientifically, you may have an explanation for it, but I'm not… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image